TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vörös, Attila
TI  - Jurassic microplate movements and brachiopod migrations in the western part of the Tethys
JF  - PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
J2  - PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL
VL  - 100
PY  - 1993
IS  - 1-2
SP  - 125
EP  - 145
PG  - 21
SN  - 0031-0182
DO  - 10.1016/0031-0182(93)90037-J
UR  - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/21017
ID  - 21017
N1  - Cited By :81            
            Export Date: 11 November 2022            
            CODEN: PPPYA            
            Correspondence Address: Vörös, A.; Department of Geology and Paleontology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Muzeum Körút 14-16, H-1370 Budapest, Hungary            
            Funding details: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, OTKA, 356/88            
            Funding text 1: The author is indebted to the organizerso f this special volume for inviting his paper. Special thanks are due to Dr. Miguel Mancefiido (La Plata) and to an anonymous reviewer for their valuable comments,a nd \\['ori mprovingthe English text. M. Mancefiido gave very important complementary data to the distributiono f Middle Jurassic nucleatids: Dr. M. Kfizm6r (Budapest) provided the author with a version of the tectonic base map used in Figs. 2 6. Their help is acknowledged herein. The present work was partly supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Foundation (OTKA) Grant No. 356/88.
AB  - The paleobiogeography of the Jurassic brachiopods of the Alpine-Carpathian region and adjacent areas is discussed on the basis of the distribution of ''distinctive taxa''. The Jurassic microplates of the western part of Tethys and the present-day ''terranes'' of the Alpine-Carpathian region are outlined and their relationships are discussed. The migration possibilities of the brachiopods in the Jurassic Tethys were controlled mainly by plate/microplate movements and by changes in the oceanic current system.

The Mediterranean microcontinent, isolated from the European and African shelves by oceanic/deep-sea belts, was the homeland of the Mediterranean brachiopod province. In the course of the Jurassic, the Mediterranean microcontinent moved, as part of the African plate, away from Europe, the widening Alboran-Ligurian-Penninic oceanic belt became a barrier preventing migration of brachiopods. By the end of the Middle Jurassic the Tisza microplate detached from Europe and formed a ''stepping stone'' for brachiopod dispersal. At about the same time, the ''Hesperian Strait'' opened between the basins of the Tethys and the Central Atlantic. The opening of this strait resulted in a reorganization of the Tethyan current system. The westward flowing equatorial currents which made a turn in the western corner of Tethys in the first half of the Mesozoic, now ran to the west through the Hesperian Strait via the Central Atlantic to the Pacific. This change produced a new pattern in brachiopod distribution: the Mediterranean fauna successfully invaded the European shelf, at the same time the Mediterranean province became impoverished.
LA  - English
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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vörös, Attila
TI  - The Mediterranean character of the Lower Jurassic brachiopod fauna of the Bakony Mts. (Hungary)
JF  - ANNALES UNIVERSITATIS SCIENTIARUM BUDAPESTINENSIS DE ROLANDO EÖTVÖS NOMINATAE - SECTIO GEOLOGICA
J2  - ANN UNIV SCI BP R EÖTVÖS NOM SECT GEOL
VL  - 21
PY  - 1982
SP  - 13
EP  - 23
PG  - 11
SN  - 0365-0634
UR  - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/20964
ID  - 20964
LA  - English
DB  - MTMT
ER  -